- present participle of cull.
culling
Example Sentences
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“I always think, like the song, about cleaning it up or at least culling it so I could get all the records off the floor and onto the shelves.”
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
According to Shanker, limited culling may sometimes discourage wild animals from entering human-dominated areas more effectively than several other approaches currently in use.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
This week, host Scott Pelley was also fired after he confronted newsroom leadership about the culling in a tense staff meeting.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
In 2020, it ordered the culling of all roughly 17 million farm-raised mink in Denmark to stop the spread of a coronavirus mutation, a directive it later admitted had no legal grounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
It was a lousy job, but twice a day, someone at the farm had to do the culling.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
